This Came Out 100 Years Ago Today

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[1mach1]

Wow! 100 years ago. I remember seeing this with my grandmother when I was a kid. Great memory with her.

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[LizzieMaine]

The desk clerk is Al St. John, who was Arbuckle's nephew, and served as a stooge in most of the Arbuckle-Keaton shorts. He later went on to play grizzled sidekicks in B westerns as "Fuzzy" St. John.

Arbuckle is very underrated as a comic -- his movements are wonderfully graceful to watch for a man of his bulk. You can look up the talking shorts he made for Vitaphone in the early thirties, and while he's obviously older, he hadn't lost a bit of that fluid grace.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Alas, Arbuckle suffers from being recalled for his scandal, not for his films... when he's recalled at all these days.

The awesome Chaplin Mutual shorts are now over a hundred years old. The great Keaton and Lloyd shorts will be in a couple of years. Hey, at least they're still funny!

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I neglected to note it, but on January 27th, Tarzan of the Movies turned 100. "TARZAN OF THE APES", starring Elmo Lincoln, was released on that date in 1918. Possibly the longest-lived movie character of them all, though there are challengers.

 

[2jakes]

1902

Google’s first VR Doodle honors filmmaker Georges Méliés film from
over a hundred years ago.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Saw some debate as to the actual date of this being around the 20th or the 21st. I say, so what? 100 years is 100 years and it's still a miracle it even survives.

Nice to see some fans of silent comedies who don't argue over the Arbuckle scandal.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Mickey, starring Mabel Normand, came out in August 1918

 

[GHT]

I neglected to note it, but on January 27th, Tarzan of the Movies turned 100. "TARZAN OF THE APES", starring Elmo Lincoln, was released on that date in 1918. Possibly the longest-lived movie character of them all, though there are challengers.

 

[2jakes]

A Dog's Life is a 1918 American short silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films. Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna toward a better life.

 

[vitanola]

Mickey, starring Mabel Normand, came out in August 1918

"Mickey, pretty Mickey, with your hair of raven hue..."

 

[Zombie_61]

I neglected to note it, but on January 27th, Tarzan of the Movies turned 100. "TARZAN OF THE APES", starring Elmo Lincoln, was released on that date in 1918. Possibly the longest-lived movie character of them all, though there are challengers.

Sadly, my first exposure to this movie was the Fractured Flickers version with the over-dubbed narration, "comedic" dialogue, and silly sound effects. When I finally saw the real version for the first time I couldn't get Paul Frees' goofy giggle out of my head.

With regards to "longest-lived movie character", Dr. Frankenstein and his creation beat Tarzan by almost eight years.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ah, Charles Ogle. When Usenet was a thing, the mere mention of his name was good for a laugh on alt.movies.silent.

 

[2jakes]

 

[Formeruser012523]

Ah, Charles Ogle. When Usenet was a thing, the mere mention of his name was good for a laugh on alt.movies.silent.

alt.movies.silent? That sounds familiar. Are those the people who are now at Nitrateville? Which I promptly abandoned because they were so rude.

This place is MUCH nicer, btw.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The core of the old alt.movies.silent group went on to form Nitrateville, and then there were a few additional schisms. One led to the formation of the "Silent Comedy Mafia" group, which is extremely informative but you've got to have a thick skin to go there. I read both, but stop short of posting.

I think most of the most combative posters of the old alt.movies.silent have since died -- even at its most persnickety there's nothing on Nitrateville to equal the height of the dudgeons some of those old cinefarts went off on.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Got to where I wouldn't post after I was immediately attacked after joining. There was maybe one nice person who directed me to an introductions thread, but no one welcomed me. Just general rudeness and "look-at-how-much-I-know-"ness. Didn't learn anything and left.

Cinefarts. LOL! Thanks for that.

 

[2jakes]

100 years ago.

Out of the Inkwell was a major animated series of the silent era produced by Max Fleischerfrom 1918 to 1929. The series was the result of three short experimental films that Max Fleischer independently produced in the period of 1914–1916 to demonstrate his invention, the Rotoscope, which was a device consisting of a film projector and easel used as an aid for achieving realistic movement for animated cartoons. The Rotoscope would project motion picture film through an opening in the easel, covered by a glass pane serving as a drawing surface. The image on the projected film was traced onto paper, advancing the film one frame at a time as each drawing would be made. Fleischer's younger brother Dave Fleischer was working as a clown at Coney Island, and served as the model for what was to become their first famous character that later evolved as "Koko the Clown."